Country Music Experience of a Lifetime-Part Three

ACM Awards

There aren’t very many pictures here because we couldn’t take our camera in. I did take some pictures with my cell phone of the stage, the cameraman and the crowd as they were coming in. In the sixth picture, you’ll see two blondes—one with short hair and one with longer hair. We stood by them for hours at the Fremont Street concert the weekend before! I think the young one (the daughter, we think) was still hungover…
The last pictures are of us before we left the house. Henry says hi! And thanks Mary, for lending me the hat and boots! The show was a lot of fun—we saw almost Everyone In Country Music Today! There were some touching moments, too. Carrie Underwood was receiving so much adulation during her performance of “ Jesus, Take The Wheel”, that she actually choked up near the end. She is one of those performers that seems like a very genuinely nice and grounded person. I was a little bit disappointed in Dierks Bentley, however. He might be a little too famous or something…
The Academy of Country Music Awards took place at the famous MGM Grand Garden Arena. Brad Paisley opened the show—he’s great! Reba was fabulous as emcee. Some of the performers, like Toby Keith, used the teleprompter for their songs. Most didn’t, though. The teleprompters were huge and placed in the rear of the floor, so we could read the jokes and get the punchline before the TV audience. That was fun. All in all, it was an evening that we’ll not forget!

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